Polar blast to grip country

Temperatures below 10 degrees are expected for the next few nights as a southerly blast coming straight off the polar ice brings wintery weather to New Zealand.

A developing area of low pressure off the east coast of Australia is also likely to spell a wet weekend for the upper North Island.


Winter is expected to take hold as a polar blast moves in over the country. Photo: File.

A low pressure system is expected to slide across the Far North of New Zealand during Friday night and into the start of the weekend

With it will come some heavy rainfall to parts of Northland, Auckland, the Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Plenty before it moves across to Gisborne and northern Hawke's Bay by Saturday night.

'With a few days still to go before this system reaches our shores, there is still time for the rain to be shifted a little further north or south,” says MetService meteorologist John Law.

'However, it does look like we will see some wet weather to start the weekend, so keep a close eye on the latest MetService forecast.”

While the wettest weather stays to the north, the South Island does not escape scot free, with some wintry weather returning on Sunday.

'This week we have already seen some chilly temperatures in central parts of the South Island,” says John. 'For example, Pukaki dropped to minus 3C overnight.

'On Sunday, another cold southerly blasts its way up the country, dropping the temperatures and bringing snow which could fall to low levels in some areas.”

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